IXD History Wrap Up
References and Videos plus my next project I hope you enjoyed the intro lectures I shared from my Interaction Design History class I taught this past fall (2020...
Category: Interaction Design History
IXD Futures: AI & machine learning, AR & VR, speculative design & futures—intro lecture 15
Alternative ways of thinking about interactive experiences & speculating on the future We are finally into the future — and this week we read about Artifici...
Information Age: voice, design systems, mobile and IoT—intro lecture 14
We bring ourselves into the present and we contemplate ethics questions after watching contemporary science fiction clips. This week we will look at the rise an...
Information Age: The dot com boom and bust, rise of e-commerce & social platforms, accessible to universal—intro lecture 13
I share screenshots of my first website and we all laughed at how primitive it was This week we are going to ride the dot com boom and bust as the internet beco...
Information Age: Information Architecture & Richard Saul Wurman, — intro lecture 12
Where I let others tell you the details on the history of IA and we think about IA in the context of IXD This week we are going to deep dive into Information Ar...
Computer Age: AOL the first internet giant — Girl Games with Brenda Laurel—intro lecture 11
Maligned AOL and research into gender differences in games In the 80’s, on the east coast, another community was created by Steve Case. AOL started as a BBS and...
Computer Age: The World Wide Web, The Browser, Early Communities (The Well, BBSes, Usenet) — intro lecture 10
Where Interaction Design History and my personal history as a designer begin to overlap Once folks start having computers in their homes, they want to do more t...
Computer Age: Early personal computers & games — intro lecture 9
Finally we are going to talk about early personal computing and computer games. This is the beginning of what we are more familiar with compared to what we have...
Computer Age: Christopher Alexander, Muriel Cooper and Architecting Space — intro lecture 8
The week we learn how architecture in the physical world can teach us about designing in the digital world. And about design patterns. This week we’re going to ...
Silicon Age: Visioning the future & the beginnings of Interaction Design as a practice — intro lecture 7
We finally start to hear about the origins of Interaction Design as a distinct practice. It still doesn’t have the official name yet but Bill Verplank, talks ab...
Silicon Age: The Mother of All Demos — and my how the world changed — intro lecture 6 from my Interaction Design History course
This is a short intro as the content of the videos covers everything needed to think about in this section. So far in our journey we’ve seen the evolution of sy...
Industrial Age: Mid-Century Designers, Designing For People —intro lecture 5 from my Interaction Design History course
When designers designed across disciplines and brought learnings from one discipline to another After WWII the U.S. enters a time of incredible innovation and e...
Industrial Age: Between the Wars & The Memex — intro lecture 4 from my Interaction Design History course
The Bauhaus spreads to America. Diving into the concept of hypertext with the Memex and how WW2 gave us human factors engineering and Fitt’s Law Between World W...
Industrial Age: The Industrial Revolution & Manifestos — intro lecture 3 from History of Interaction Design
The Machine Revolutionizes the World and our field begins to find sparks The industrial revolution starts around 1760 and lasts nearly 100 years. By the 1800’s ...
In the beginning—part 2—The Renaissance & Moveable Type- lecture 2 from Interaction Design History
Where we learn that moveable type & paper making came to the west from China first & Da Vinci had his hands in everything Around 1040 AD moveable wood t...